Salient. Official Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol 40 No. 23. September 12 1977

You might get an abortion when:

You might get an abortion when:

The person doing the act that (no mention of panels or certificates!)-

(a)	The continuation of the pregnancy would result in serious danger to the life or physical or mental health of the woman or girl. This is not to include the normal danger of childbirth.
(b)	There is a substantial risk that the child would be severely mentally or physically handicapped.
(c)	The pregnancy results from incest or &
(d)	from a guardian's intercourse with a woman under 20 in his care.
(e)	The woman or girl is severely subnormal.

Age and social and economic circumstances may be considered - they need not be.

All these grounds apply up to 20 weeks. After that you can only get an abortion on grounds (a) and (b) So a severely subnormal girl pregnant by her father and not realising until too late need not be entitled to an abortion. Severely subnormal fathers do not evidently, have severely subnormal, children.

—Coaction comments on Abortion Legislation